google docs edit --editor xemacs: only plain text, format destroyed, not possible with format html

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. create a gdoc with format such as headings and boldface
1.google docs edit  "test" --editor xemacs
2.add text and save (using UTF-8, btw which should be mentioned, latin1 does 
not work)
3. reopen the document in google docs

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

the format mark-up, like heading and bold face was gone.

I tried to use the --format html option but it did not work with 
the editor option. the document was downloaded in html to stout but
the editor was not opened.  

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? What
version of gdata-python-client (aka python-gdata)?

Linux, Kubuntu Lucid with 
googlecl_0.9.13-1_all.deb
python-gdata_2.0.8-1.1_all.deb

Uwe Brauer 

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by oub.oub....@gmail.com on 7 May 2011 at 8:48

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see issue #411

Original comment by rhdoen...@gmail.com on 30 Aug 2011 at 6:06

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also in vim

ie:

google docs edit --title "blah" --editor vim

mint maya
python-gdata (2.0.14-2) ...
googlecl (0.9.13-1) ...

Original comment by ErichBSc...@gmail.com on 22 Dec 2012 at 1:44

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Even the web interface doesn't support downloading it as html. The only option 
in the web interface is to get it as zipped html. To use it in googlecl you 
have to use `--format zip`. This doesn't help with editing the html in the 
editor, but it seems like there is no way to do it at this moment.

All the formats available at the web interface work with googlecl without any 
problem. The other formats I checked, which are not available in the web 
interface, result in errors returned from the service.

Original comment by szy...@endpoint.com on 29 Dec 2012 at 6:21

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